What's the difference between congruent and incongruent?

Congruent


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) negative intention and congruent behavior (CONG-, N = 42).
  • (2) Peak pressures measured with the RP probe decreased to congruent with50 mm Hg and radial pressure asymmetry vanished.
  • (3) The rank order of potency was WEB 2086 congruent to L-652,731 greater than BN 52021 and was the same for the two cell types.
  • (4) The branching pattern derived from the DNA comparisons is congruent with the fossil evidence and supported by comparative biochemical, chromosomal, and morphological studies.
  • (5) The time constant of the increase of force during the stretch decreased (tau rise congruent to 7 ms to tau rise congruent to 4 ms) with increases in v (congruent to 4 microns s-1 to v congruent to 10 microns s-1; P = 0.02).
  • (6) The two G1(+) mutants belonging to complementation group V are temperature sensitive for expression of the G1(+) phenotype (G1 congruent with 0, 4, and 6 hr at 33 degrees , 37 degrees , and 39 degrees , respectively).
  • (7) Material in peak 1 bound IGF-I congruent to IGF-II and had no affinity for insulin and proinsulin.
  • (8) Children recalled incongruent material more than congruent material on the comprehension-monitoring task.
  • (9) These differences are congruent with age-related changes in speech and voice but also might be explained by other physiological or sociological variables.
  • (10) This study investigated whether Nonstandard English (NSE) dialect responses to an examiner-constructed sentence completion test were congruent with and predictive of use of NSE during spontaneous conversation.
  • (11) Hypotheses suggesting that hip joints which develop osteoarthritis are congruent, have a single area of peak pressure, and have peak pressure which exceeds normal values were tested.
  • (12) One joint was congruent, in agreement with the hypotheses, but the other was incongruent.
  • (13) The findings were not only congruent with Vernon's ability paradigm but also suggest that the ability structure for retardates may well be more complex than the structure for normals.
  • (14) Japanese psychiatrists tended to diagnose social phobia congruently for the Japanese cases but not for the Japanese-American cases.
  • (15) The present results are consistent with the supposition that the high-affinity site for ATP on the holoenzyme is congruent with the phosphotransferase site of the catalytic subunit.
  • (16) Many aspects of the theory's descriptive claims about depressive thinking have been substantiated empirically, including (a) increased negativity of cognitions about the self, (b) increased hopelessness, (c) specificity of themes of loss to depressive syndromes rather than psychopathology in general, and (d) mood-congruent recall.
  • (17) In addition, background music was either congruent or incongruent with the affect of an episode's outcome.
  • (18) The issue at stake for children such as ours appears to be firmly rooted in a gender identity not congruent with their natal sex: a condition called gender dysphoria.
  • (19) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
  • (20) From data on splitting the associate CD spectra of type I and II the excitation interaction energy V12 congruent to 75 cm-1 was estimated.

Incongruent


Definition:

  • (a.) Incongruous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (2) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
  • (3) We successfully applied it in the treatment of eight fractures of the shafts of the femur or tibia which would not unite because of infection, soft tissue interposition or gross incongruity of fragments.
  • (4) Fifty-nine Salter-Harris III and IV lesions of the medial malleolus, Tillaux fractures, and triplane fractures were examined after 9 (3-32) years to assess the frequency of late symptoms, deformity, joint incongruity, and secondary arthrosis.
  • (5) The thymus is the first organ in the body to age, which seems incongruent considering its cardinal role in the immune system.
  • (6) Children recalled incongruent material more than congruent material on the comprehension-monitoring task.
  • (7) One joint was congruent, in agreement with the hypotheses, but the other was incongruent.
  • (8) Nothing in the present findings, however, is incongruent with the possibility of an association between low platelet MAO activity and bipolar affective disorder.
  • (9) Results showed significantly longer VRTs in the Accuracy group, and more errors in the Speed group to right-field projections (initial left hemisphere input) of the incongruent color-words during the color-naming condition.
  • (10) In addition, background music was either congruent or incongruent with the affect of an episode's outcome.
  • (11) Examination of 29 cases of fracture of the distal radius with restricted motion or persistent pain in 22 patients showed that most had been caused by incongruity of the distal radioulnar joint or by rotational malalignment in supination or pronation.
  • (12) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
  • (13) Congruent students did in fact achieve significantly higher cumulative GPA and science GPA than did incongruent students.
  • (14) In Experiment 1, at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 300 ms, congruous situations showed 59 ms of facilitation while incongruous situations did not differ from the baseline.
  • (15) The reasons for post-traumatic contracture of the elbow could be intrinsic such as interposed fragments, intra-articular adhesions, incongruity of the articular surfaces--or extrinsic--like contractures of the capsule and ligaments, adhesions of different layers, ectopic bone formations.
  • (16) In one, incongruous homonymous hemianopsia was accompanied by a decrease in visual acuity in one eye from chiasmal involvement.
  • (17) Congruence between the object display and the sentence produced significantly higher recall and clustering than the incongruence or control conditions.
  • (18) She laughs raucously again, mirth appearing to be, incongruously, her way of acknowledging pain.
  • (19) Once incongruent persistence is suspected, the possibility of parental falsification of symptoms must be faced.
  • (20) The proverbs appeared either in their original form or with their final word changed to be incongruous with the sentence context.